By Walt Hickey Liking Numlock? Forward today’s email to a friend you think may enjoy it and might subscribe. Lander Earns Name NASA stuck the landing, successfully delivering the $814 million InSight probe to Mars. The mission is to study the planet’s interior and is NASA’s first attempt to explore Mars with a new lander since 2012’s landing of the Curiosity rover. InSight will detect marsquakes and other neat things. Worth highlighting is that getting a functioning device onto the surface of Mars is still way dicier than the recent NASA track record would have casual followers believe: earthlings were running at a 40 percent success rate in successfully invading Martian personal space. Two recent man-made craters on Mars include the European Space Agency’s Schiaparelli craft in 2016 and NASA’s Mars Polar Lander in 2009.
"domestic manufacturers essentially throw in the town"
I believe that you mean "throw in the towel"?
I've never really understood the SUV phenomenon. There are any number of really tiny women in my office building who drive either SUVs or pickup trucks. They don't work on farms or in industry, so why do they need vehicles like that? I don't get it, and I guess at this point, I never will.
"domestic manufacturers essentially throw in the town"
I believe that you mean "throw in the towel"?
I've never really understood the SUV phenomenon. There are any number of really tiny women in my office building who drive either SUVs or pickup trucks. They don't work on farms or in industry, so why do they need vehicles like that? I don't get it, and I guess at this point, I never will.